SELECTIONS FROMJohnson Family CHINA BLOG

We started BLOGGING when we went to China, so we could have a history of our important events. This blog contains those stories, many of which are stories of faith and economic survival, and of making many friends who helped us along the way!

Used Chinese Fireworks to celebrate 4th of July in China! Not the normal time for fireworks, but nobody seemed to know what had happened :)

Our friends the Fraziers bought some chinese fireworks and we got to help them light them off. It was the 4th of July, in China, ha. But actually, this is also my son Adam's birthday too (he's in the vid). These were the real deal fireworks, dangerous enough to be EXCITING. None of that "safe and sane" nonsense you have to buy in America which are also very boring. No, these were real fireworks and a lot of fun to watch.

I have also seen these used throughout the year in China at various celebrations of company openings, or weddings, usually in the day however, so they are mostly about making a lot of noise high up in the sky. These ones we lit off here were of the colorful and exciting variety. It was really cool. Coolest firework experience up close and personal I ever had.

Hi I'm Grant Johnson and I was an engineer in China from 2013-2015. 你好！我叫 Grant Johnson。 初年我是工程师在中国的 2013-2015。

I lived with my family there (wife and 5 of our 12 children) in a small city of only 2 million 我 跟我的家人一起住过了在中国（我的太太和五个孩子）里面的小城市200万 (and growing rapidly 成长速度非常快). Half of them went to the local LiaoGongDA university and learning Chinese 三个人上辽工大学了汉语. ​

A bullet train is coming to town高铁要来阜新. I was helping on that process 我的工作就是在这个过程中帮助. Check me out on Linkedin.com where I have a profile with links to a variety of work I have done.